10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

To civilians who may have been puzzled by the wildlife crowd’s tossed-off references to peefas, modos or mice cubes, here is a beginner’s guide to Rehabberspeak. Some abbreviations are not helpful, however, such as SSHA ( Sharp-shinned Hawk ) or GRPC ( Greater Prairie Chicken ) or UEFL ( Unidentified Empidonax Flycatcher ).

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Injured wildlife are not the most cooperative of patients. Wildlife rehabilitators have an arsenal of equipment and techniques we use to protect ourselves. And I was pecked in the eye by my pet chicken, does that count?”. “I Most of them think we’re trying to eat them, not help them.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. As long as they had no drugs in their system, and as long as they weren’t touched by a cat (and thus contaminated with salmonella/pasteurella/Bartonella, etc.)

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Rats 205

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. I had a fledgling hummingbird they fed chicken noodle soup because it was sick,” wrote Tracy Anderson. “A I had a call about a ground hog who sat at the table and ate chicken salad with sweet tea,” wrote Becky Marlin. “I The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250